The Reid Technique of interviewing and interrogation involves three different components -- factual analysis, interviewing, and interrogation. While each of these are separate and distinct procedures, they are interrelated in the sense that each serves to help eliminate innocent suspects during an investigation, thereby allowing the investigator to focus on the person most likely to be guilty and to interrogate that individual in an effort to learn the truth. Supporters argue the technique is useful in extracting information from otherwise unwilling suspects, while critics have charged the technique can elicit false confessions from innocent persons. Interrogation is the method of interviewing a source used by police and military personnel to obtain information that the source would not otherwise willingly disclose. ... A false confession is where a suspect in a crime admits their guilt to the crime, even though they are not responsible for the crime. ...

The term "Reid technique" is a registered trademark of the firm John E. Reid and Associates, which offers training courses in the method. The technique is widely used by law-enforcement agencies in North America. Chicago police officer on a Segway. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...

Factual Analysis

Both an interview as well as an interrogation are facilitated by analysis of investigative findings. Proper factual analysis assists the investigator in the following ways:

• Eliminate improbable suspects
• Develop possible suspects or leads
• Increase confidence in identifying truthful or guilty suspects through the interview process
• Identify proper interrogational strategies

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Interrogation, on the other hand, is an accusatory process -- accusatory only in the sense that the investigator tells the suspect that there is no doubt as to his guilt. The interrogation is in the form of a monologue presented by the investigator, rather than a question and answer format. The actual demeanor of the investigator during the course of an interrogation is understanding, patient, and non-demeaning. A monologue is a speech made by one person speaking his or her thoughts aloud or directly addressing a reader, audience or character. ...

The Reid Nine Steps of Interrogation

The form of the interrogation is built around active persuasion by moral justification. The interrogator presents a monologue and discourages the suspect from denials or explanations. The interrogator progresses the suspect towards an admission by the use of alternative or contrasting questions, offering the suspect two choices, one of which is less morally challenging than the other. If the suspect acknowledges a choice the interrogation moves to non-leading questions to draw out the full confession. A critical part of the process is the development of information that will corroborate and substantiate the subject’s admission of guilt. A leading question is a question which attempts to direct a respondant to a particular answer or implies a correct response. ...

The identification of deceptive behaviors or symptoms in speech or body language are part of the Reid Technique. The use of lies, threats, leading questions or inducements by the interrogator is not a sanctioned part of the Reid Technique.

External links

• John E. Reid and Associates
• Neil Nelson and Associates and Taped or Electronically Recorded Interrogation Resources